iPatent is an open-source, interactive prototype designed to demonstrate web-based multimodal patent image retrieval and analysis. As a proof-of-concept application, it aims to assist patent examiners and applicants with tasks such as Prior Art Search, Cross-Domain and Multimodal Search, Infringement Detection, and Freedom-to-Operate Analysis. The demo supports three retrieval modes: image-to-image, text-to-image, and text-conditioned image-to-image search.
iPatent is part of the project "ViP@Scale: Visual and multimodal patent search at scale" funded by the Academic Research Programme of the European Patent Office.